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Sarah Paulson.

17 December 1974 · 23:05 · Tampa, Hillsborough County, United States

Sarah Paulson's birth chart: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Aquarius, Virgo rising. Born December 17, 1974 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, United States.

About this chart

What is Sarah Paulson's sun sign?

Sarah Paulson's sun is in Sagittarius.

What is Sarah Paulson's moon sign?

Sarah Paulson's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Sarah Paulson's rising sign?

Sarah Paulson's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Sarah Paulson born?

Sarah Paulson was born December 17, 1974 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, United States.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunSagittarius · 4th house

The self is built toward meaning and the horizon. Optimistic, philosophical, hungry for what lies beyond the known, the arrow always pointing forward. Lesson: the truth you seek is in the specific life you are running from. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonAquarius · 5th house

Feeling is processed at a slight distance. Comfort comes from friendship, from groups, from the chosen family. The sensitivity is real but offered with detachment. The shadow is dodging the personal by way of the universal. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Sagittarius in the 4th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeSagittarius · 3rd house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 9th house

The South Node in Gemini (9th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Aries; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mercury · the chart rulerSagittarius · 4th house

Thought reaches for the bigger picture. The mind works philosophically, in large frameworks, and the speech is enthusiastic, sometimes preachy. The shadow is impatience with detail and the assumption that the framework is the answer.

Where it drives. Thinking turns toward origins. The childhood home shaped how the mind works, you reflect deeply on family and the inner life, and there is often a private study or shelf of books.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Saturn) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in fire and mutable signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusScorpio · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAries · 8th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAquarius · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that figured out early the rules were not built for you. It is the odd one who stops fitting on purpose. The medicine is finding the other odd ones and building better rooms. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to seek truth, expand the map, and say the honest thing.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a fire, mutable chart led by Mercury. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Sagittarius Sun · Aquarius Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
36%
Earth
26%
Air
23%
Water
15%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Sun gather in Sagittarius. A stellium in Sagittarius concentrates the chart on truth, travel, and the big map. You seek and preach at high volume: meaning, horizon, and honest belief are where the life packs its fire.

gift

Tremendous focus through Sagittarius: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Sagittarius energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Sagittarius stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Sagittarius is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.87°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 0.91°

In you, the Sun is fused with Mercury, bringing together your core identity and will and your mind and how you communicate. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 1.26°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Venus square Plutoorb 3.01°

In you, Venus grinds against Pluto, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your relationship to power and deep change. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Mars sextile Plutoorb 3.94°

In you, Mars works easily with Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Jupiter rules Piscesat home

Jupiter sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Mercury sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.5°

An easy, available link: Mercury and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.9°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Pluto sextile North Nodeorb 1.1°

An easy, available link: Pluto and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 1.4°

An easy, available link: Sun and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

North Node sextile Vertexorb 2.1°

An easy, available link: North Node and Vertex feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Uranus square Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

A productive friction: the pull between Uranus and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 1.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Jupiter and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 1.3°

A productive friction: the pull between Jupiter and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

Mercury runs uphill in Sagittarius, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

Saturn runs uphill in Cancer, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Venus square Plutoorb 3.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Venus and Pluto never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Sarah Paulson
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°53' Sagittarius4th house·
Moon16°35' Aquarius5th house·
Mercury24°58' Sagittarius4th housedetriment, chart ruler
Venus6°04' Capricorn4th house·
Mars5°08' Sagittarius3rd house·
Jupiter11°12' Pisces6th houserulership
Saturn16°57' Cancer10th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus1°21' Scorpio2nd house·
Neptune9°56' Sagittarius3rd house·
Pluto9°04' Libra1st house·
Chiron20°02' Aries8th houseretrograde
North Node10°09' Sagittarius3rd houseretrograde
South Node10°09' Gemini9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°28' Aquarius6th house·
Part of Fortune0°38' Leo11th house·
Vertex12°15' Aquarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node0.22°applying
mercurysextilelilith0.50°separating
uranussquarepart-of-fortune0.72°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.87°separating
sunconjunctionmercury0.91°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node1.04°separating
plutosextilenorth-node1.08°applying
jupitersquareneptune1.26°separating
sunsextilelilith1.41°separating
north-nodesextilevertex2.10°separating
neptunesextilevertex2.31°applying
venussquarepluto3.01°applying
saturnsquarechiron3.08°separating
plutotrinevertex3.18°applying
moonsextilechiron3.44°applying
marssextilepluto3.94°applying
moonconjunctionvertex4.33°separating
marstrinepart-of-fortune4.50°separating
marsconjunctionneptune4.81°applying
mercurytrinechiron4.94°separating
marsconjunctionnorth-node5.02°applying
sunsextileuranus5.47°applying
jupitertrinesaturn5.75°applying
suntrinechiron5.85°separating
moontrinepluto7.51°separating
moonconjunctionlilith7.89°applying
marssesquiquadratechiron0.10°separating
mercurybiquintilepart-of-fortune0.34°separating
moonquincunxsaturn0.37°separating
plutosesquiquadratelilith0.40°separating
moonquintilemars0.55°applying
saturnbiquintilenorth-node0.79°applying
venussemisextilemars0.93°separating
saturnbiquintileneptune1.01°applying
jupitersemisextilevertex1.05°applying
sunbiquintilepart-of-fortune1.25°separating
sunsemisquarevertex1.37°applying
jupiterquincunxpluto2.13°separating